Program

This is the short version of the conference program. The detailed version has been sent to all participants.
Here are a few possible examples of scenarios that an attendee or presenter can expect from MedGU-21 Annual Meeting:
  • A number of in-person sessions are planned and during which presenters and attendees will appear in-person (in Istanbul).
  • These in-person sessions will be broadcast live (MedGU-21 Live Stream) to all attendees regardless of how they are attending the sessions (in person or online).
  • In parallel with this, some online-only sessions will occur during the main meeting hours, as shoulder events.
  • During these events, authors will be presenting via video. Attendees can ask questions after logging into the virtual meeting platform.
  • There will be no (in-person or online) poster sessions.
For more details click on each day:

Conference Day 1 (in-person and online)

Thursday, Nov. 25th 2021

Time
(TRT = GMT+3)		 Room 1 Virtual Room 1
09:00—10:30 Arrival and registration of conference participants
10:30—11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00—11:30 Opening Words
A.M. Celâl Sengör, Honorary Chair
Attila Çiner, Local Organizing Chair
Nabil Khélifi, Founder & Supervisor
11:30—12:30

Nurgul Balci: What is the meaning of Lake Salda’s microbialites ? are they biosignature repositories for Jezero Crater (Mars)?
Tolga Görüm: Landslides as a natural seismometer: the importance of faulting mechanism and rupture dynamics on the co-seismic landslide distribution characteristics

12:30—14:00 LUNCH
14:00—16:00 Sinan Özeren: How can space geodesy help us in seismic hazard studies in Anatolia, Turkey
Hesham El-askary: Multi-source satellite imagery, studying the filling of the GERD reservoir and its impact on downstream countries
Stefan Grab: Reflections on Geomorphology, as published in the Arabian Journal of Geosciences
16:00—16:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:30—17:30 M. Akif Sarıkaya: Glacier-based paleoclimatology of the Eastern Mediterranean
Aral Okay: Geology of Turkey
17:30—19:00
Virtual Room 1
Plenary by Mohamed Abid (NASA, USA): Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission
19:00—23:00 Social Program: Ice Breaker & Dinner
(all participants invited / departure from congress centre)

Conference Day 2 (in-person and online)

Friday, Nov. 26th 2021

Time
(TRT = GMT+3)		 Room 1 Virtual Room 1 Room 2 Virtual Room 2 Room 3 Virtual Room 3 Room 4 Virtual Room 4
08:00—10:30 Round Table 1
10:30—11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00—12:30 [T14-IS1] [T9-IS1] [T11-IS1] [T10-IS1]
12:30—14:00 LUNCH
14:00—16:00 [T14-IS2] [T9-IS2] [T13-T15-IS1] [T10-IS2]
16:00—16:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:30—19:00 [T5-IS1] [T7-IS1] [T3-IS1] [T8-T12-IS1]
19:00—20:00 Springer Nature Seminar
20:00—21:00 Springer Nature Dinner (Congress Centre)
Time
(TRT = GMT+3)		 Virtual Room 5 Virtual Room 6 Virtual Room 7 Virtual Room 8 Virtual Room 9
08:00—10:30
Virtual Room 5
Pijush Samui: Machine Learning in Geosciences
Lysandros Pantelidis: The Generalized Coefficients of Earth Pressure: A Unified Approach
Imran Ali: Graphene: A marvellous material for water treatment in future
Astrid Holzheid: The fate of platinum group elements during core formation and mantle melting
Georgiy Stenchikov: Climate Variability and Change in the Middle East and North Africa
10:30—11:00 Break
11:00—12:30 [T1-VS1] [T6-VS1] [T4-VS1] [T8-VS1] [T12-VS1]
12:30—14:00 Break
14:00—16:00 [T1-VS2] [T6-VS2] [T4-VS2] [T8-VS2] [T10-VS1]
16:00—16:30 Break
16:30—19:00 [T1-VS3] [T6-VS3] [T4-VS3] [T13-T15-VS1] [T10-VS2]

Conference Day 3 (in-person and online)

Saturday, Nov. 27th 2021

Time
(TRT = GMT+3)		 Room 1 Virtual Room 1 Room 2 Virtual Room 2 Room 3 Virtual Room 3 Room 4 Virtual Room 4
08:30—10:30 [T14-IS3] [T6-IS1] [T4-IS1] [T2-IS1]
10:30—11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00—12:30 [T1-IS1] [T6-IS2] [T4-IS2] [T16-IS1]
12:30—14:00 LUNCH
14:00—16:00 [T1-IS2] [T6-IS3] [T4-IS3] [T10-IS3]
16:00—16:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:30—18:00 Round Table 2
18:00—19:00 Closing Words / Award Ceremony
19:00—22:00 Social Program: Bosphorus Cruise + Gala Dinner
(all participants invited / departure from congress centre)
Time
(TRT = GMT+3)		 Virtual Room 5 Virtual Room 6 Virtual Room 7 Virtual Room 8 Virtual Room 9
08:30—10:30 [T5-VS1] [T7-VS1] [T14-VS1] [T8-VS3] [T10-VS3]
10:30—11:00 Break
11:00—12:30 [T5-VS2] [T7-VS2] [T9-VS1] [T8-VS4] [T10-VS4]
12:30—14:00 Break
14:00—16:00 [T16-VS1] [T2-VS1] [T11-T14-VS2] [T3-VS1] [T10-VS5]
16:00—16:30 Break
16:30—18:00
Virtual Room 5
Hans Thybo: Continental rifting, basin subsidence and formation of continental shelves
A. M. Celâl Şengör: How to make continental reconstructions: The importance of the knowledge of high strain along former plate boundaries
Francisco Gutiérrez: Recent investigations on karst depressions

Conference Day 4 (online only)

Sunday, Nov. 28th 2021

Time
(TRT = GMT+3)		 Virtual Room 1 Virtual Room 2 Virtual Room 3 Virtual Room 4
09:00—10:30 Course 1 Course 2 Course 4
10:30—11:00 Break
11:00—12:30 Course 1 Course 2 Course 4
12:30—14:00 Break
14:00—16:30 Course 1 Course 2 Course 4 Course 5
16:00—16:30 Break
16:30—19:00 Course 5